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Share, inspire, connect: Library related Twitter hashtags

Twitter is an outstanding tool for gaining inspiration with whatever turns you on and engaging with people of similar interests. For me Twitter has been a major boost for my professional life in terms of insights, inspiration, debates and network with the global library community.

I slowly started using Twitter in 2012 when I was on the TICER Summer School in Tillburg and it took me a while to crack the code and come to a place where I got the full potential of this great tool. A part of it was related to the size of the network; where do you even start to build your professional learning network on Twitter? Well, a good place to start is via hashtags that binds various topics and discussions together. So if you are library newbie to Twitter or just want to go exploring on library and library related hashtags here is a list (got additions to the list please write them in the commentary section):

Everyday library life

There is a number of hashtags that a great for sharing and get inspiration on what’s going on in everyday library land.

Twitter chats are excellent for discussions on various subjects with a quit broad and diverse group of people, get inspiration and connect with others. Some chats is organized with questions on topic published in advance, moderators and suggested readings. Others are more casual organized.

Monthly chat hosted by Radical Librarian Collective about an article or research paper relevant to the principles upon which Radical Librarians Collective operates: challenging, provoking, improving and developing the communications between like-minded radicals, to galvanise our collective solidarity against the marketisation of libraries.

impt, frank discussion of race in LIS on #radlibchat, while official ALA account compares libraries to Switzerland re: neutrality. 😒😒

To my knowledge a hashtag started by Hack Library School but I’m not sure it’s currently function as an actually hashtag for live chats (but I might be mistaken) but it got some fair use on relevant content.

Critlib is short for “critical librarianship,” a movement of library workers dedicated to bringing social justice principles into our work in libraries. The Critlib chats are always really well prepared with suggested readings on the current chat topic, well moderated and with a lot of great thoughts and discussions on librarianship. Read more: http://critlib.org/

A5: I come from the era of AIDS activist – Queer nation zines. Lotta stuff in those might be considered porn (altho I wd disacgree) #critlib

Mashcat is a mashed library event / community focussing on cataloguing data and is for cataloguers, developers and anyone else with an interest in how library catalogue data can be created, manipulated, used and re-used by computers and software. They got a very cool archive with all previous chats + link to Storify: http://www.mashcat.info/twitter-chat/

This hashtag also function as a subject specific hashtag for tweets on cataloguing data. Read more: http://www.mashcat.info/

Quarterly chats on healthcare topics like health literacy, health information and data mangement within the healthcare industry. Started by The National Network for Libraries in Medicine, NNLM: https://nnlm.gov/

The hashtag for tweets involving activities connected to International Librarians Network (ILN). ILN is a peer-mentoring facilitated program aimed at helping librarians develop international networks. Read more about ILN: http://interlibnet.org/

Currently #cataloguing this collection of letters from Harry Hall, Egyptologist and later Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities @BritishMuseum, to his friend Frank Gordon (Add MS 89342). Hall was a warm and playful correspondent, wearing his scholarship lightly pic.twitter.com/VoAZDIPYT7

I’m positive that the above list of library related hashtags is far from comprehensive but hopefully it can get some library folks new to Twitter going and be of inspiration for some Twitter old timers. If there is any Hashtags that should be added to the list please write them in the commentary field

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Thanks for the roundup! Super useful. There are a couple long-running hashtags around library user experience and library web services, #libux and #libweb respectively. There’s a corresponding #libux open group on Facebook, too, and a slack channel with a few hundred folks in it.

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